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Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family

Published:2012-08-24 Issue:6097 Volume:337 Page:957-960
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Bouckaert Remco¹,Lemey Philippe²,Dunn Michael³⁴,Greenhill Simon J.⁵⁶,Alekseyenko Alexander V.⁷,Drummond Alexei J.¹⁸,Gray Russell D.⁵⁹,Suchard Marc A.¹⁰¹¹¹²,Atkinson Quentin D.⁵¹³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.

2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

3. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Post Office Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, Netherlands.

4. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Kapittelweg 29, 6525 EN Nijmegen, Netherlands.

5. Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.

6. School of Culture, History & Language and College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University, 0200 Canberra, ACT, Australia.

7. Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.

8. Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.

9. Department of Philosophy, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, 0200 Canberra, ACT, Australia.

10. Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

11. Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

12. Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

13. Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PN, UK.

Abstract

A Family of LanguagesEnglish is part of the large Indo-European language family, which includes Celtic, Germanic, Italic, Balto-Slavic, and Indo-Iranian languages. The origin of this family is hotly debated: one hypothesis places the origin north of the Caspian Sea in the Pontic steppes, from where it was disseminated by Kurgan semi-nomadic pastoralists; a second suggests that Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey, is the source, and the language radiated with the spread of agriculture.Bouckaertet al.(p.957) used phylogenetic methods and modeling to assess the geographical spread of the Indo-European language group. The findings support the suggestion that the origin of the language family was indeed Anatolia 7 to 10 thousand years ago—contemporaneous with the spread of agriculture.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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